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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

The Voice of Labor posted:

what's the book on all the horrible cia backed conspiracies that's good and popular right now?

friend, you're going to have to be more specific

The Devil's Chessboard? Killing Hope? The Politics of Heroin?

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Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


chaos and jakarta method are the 2 biggest recent ones i think

The Voice of Labor
Apr 8, 2020

I read the jarakarta method, what's this chaos?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

chaos and jakarta method are the 2 biggest recent ones i think

this seems to be thread consensus on where to start

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

The Voice of Labor posted:

I read the jarakarta method, what's this chaos?

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477540

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


The Voice of Labor posted:

I read the jarakarta method, what's this chaos?

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477540


e: didn't realize per the wiki page that errol morris was going to adapt it for (i assume) a documentary. loved wormwood and feel like his style would have worked well with this. i guess amazon bought the rights tho?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAOS:_Charles_Manson,_the_CIA,_and_the_Secret_History_of_the_Sixties

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Devil's Chessboard is a good entry point because it shows the evolution of the CIA out of the OSS through the lens of Dulles's actions in Europe during WW2. Specifically:
- having advanced knowledge of the concentration camps and choosing to ignore it and
- brokering deals with Nazi leadership to get them safely out of the country before they could be killed/captured and bring them back in to form the new government after the official defeat of the Nazi party.

When that's your jumping off point, you'd think there'd be nowhere to go but up!

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

"The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives" has some pretty strong endorsements

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


The Voice of Labor posted:

what's the book on all the horrible cia backed conspiracies that's good and popular right now?

Washington Bullets?

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

lmao

now i want a courtroom drawing of ghislane drawing a picture of this drawing

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
behold a pale horse is currently an Amazon best seller.

Corsec
Apr 17, 2007
What was Maxwell's personal motivation for the sex trafficking anyway? She could have had sex, money, power, wealth, status and influence without it, so what was she getting out of it?

I assumed it was because she had already been abused by her father and it was the replication of abuse.

DesertIslandHermit
Oct 7, 2019

It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.

Corsec posted:

What was Maxwell's personal motivation for the sex trafficking anyway? She could have had sex, money, power, wealth, status and influence without it, so what was she getting out of it?

I assumed it was because she had already been abused by her father and it was the replication of abuse.

What's any rich person's motive for sex trafficking and child porn? Rich people are psychos and think they can do whatever they want.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

absolutely flummoxed that Ghislaine Maxwells favorite coffee was Maxwell House right now

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Corsec posted:

What was Maxwell's personal motivation for the sex trafficking anyway? She could have had sex, money, power, wealth, status and influence without it, so what was she getting out of it?

I assumed it was because she had already been abused by her father and it was the replication of abuse.

taking over the family business

but really she didn't have access to "sex, money, power, wealth, status and influence without it" oh sure she was rich, but not as rich as the crowd she hung out with.

there was no way she'd be hanging with the royals if she was just yet another moderately wealthy british lady.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

just reviewing a copy of the household manual to see if i can suggest any tips to the wife

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

Born on the bayou
died in a cave
bbq and posting
is all I crave

It's power. Sex crimes are always about power.

chairface
Oct 28, 2007

No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

skipmyseashells
Nov 14, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 27 hours!

chairface posted:

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

the wealthy and elite probably got tired of that a few hundred years ago

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

chairface posted:

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

well look at it this way...how have we learned the most about Epstein? through his victims.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

chairface posted:

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

there is a powerful innate reflex against cannibalism, such that many people who are forced into the situation cannot physically do it.

of course there are innate as well as social taboos against pedophilia but I'm going to guess they're just not nearly as iron-clad.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Corsec posted:

What was Maxwell's personal motivation for the sex trafficking anyway? She could have had sex, money, power, wealth, status and influence without it, so what was she getting out of it?

I assumed it was because she had already been abused by her father and it was the replication of abuse.

Working for Mossad, presumably.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Laterite posted:

lmao

now i want a courtroom drawing of ghislane drawing a picture of this drawing

When will the NFT go on sale ?

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

nasty feet touching

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Another Bill posted:

It's power. Sex crimes are always about power.

that saying that everything is about sex except sex, sex is about power

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

chairface posted:

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

I made this same point with dog fuckers instead of cannibals. systematic pedophilia requires maintaining the necessary complex logistics and attendant political operations to maintain secrecy, skills and connections that form a perfect Venn circle with those required of a successful capitalist. then Hebbian learning takes off and they form mutually supportive networks, people who pedo together do business together, etc. dog fuckers and cannibals do not need to do this, and so don't form similar power networks.

although trabisnikofs point is also very good. dogs and murder victims leak less information.

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


Centrist Committee posted:

that saying that everything is about sex except sex, sex is about power

for predators.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

cannibalism risks prion disease. spongiform brain

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


chairface posted:

The thing I wonder about, like I get the argument that it's about transgression and a vulgar display of power, so pedophilia because "ha ha I'm so powerful can get away with it!" but it seems weird to me it's all pedos and no cannibals. Just saying if I had unlimited power and wanted to really feel like I answered to no law, I'd eat people instead of screwing kids :shrug:

I got my 7 figgies where's my long pig?

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


mawarannahr posted:

spongiform brain

pro username right there

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


a friend of mine put it this way

quote:

Since acting in your own interests or speaking according to your own judgment is not evidence of someone’s power over you, those attaining power have to specifically demonstrate their willingness to compel others to harm themselves and to lie. One occupies power for oneself through sadism, and responds to it with masochism.

so, more than murder, cannibalism, or any particular crime you can do, the most effective way to get people to recognize your class position is to have them see you "compelling others to harm themselves and to lie," such as getting them to participate in ongoing abuses, and/or in the denial of those abuses.

not that he's an expert or anything, but the theory has stuck with me.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
i still have no idea how her name is supposed to be pronounced and I'm not about to learn now.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

i still have no idea how her name is supposed to be pronounced and I'm not about to learn now.

MACKS-well

it's a little tricky but if you practice you'll get it

Dr. Jerrold Coe
Feb 6, 2021

Is it me?

mdemone posted:

MACKS-well

it's a little tricky but if you practice you'll get it

That's the antisemitic way to pronounce it hth

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
The ruling class is only interested in control of other people, it's required by their class position. Ideologies are materially formed. Contained in every portion of their ideology is maintenance of the class system and their position within it. Their lustful desires would also be informed in that same way. It's no satisfaction for them to wield power over a form, as any idiot can do, but rather to wield power (including libidinal) over a form of their own creation - especially if, by their own creation too, they can do so with impunity!

Child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation, like all ills, is propped up not by just shadowy people in shadowy corridors but by the entirety of the culture of their making: topless HBO teens, sex work as empowerment, youth as beauty, of age pornstars that look and act like children (even encouraging families to abuse, incestual rape), etc etc. It doesn't happen in a vacuum and that's the point.

Anime Bernie Bro
Feb 4, 2020

FUCK MY ASSHOLE, LOL

Jetto Jagga posted:

That's the antisemitic way to pronounce it hth

i pronounce it moch-shweil

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

The elites don't do cannibalism any more because of prions. Also cannibalism wouldn't reify their power the way pedophilia does. Cannibalism is an action of last resort, of extremity, of desperation.

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

Marrying underage girls is so popular in the south (and probably not just the south) that it can't be properly legislated.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Doc Hawkins posted:

a friend of mine put it this way

so, more than murder, cannibalism, or any particular crime you can do, the most effective way to get people to recognize your class position is to have them see you "compelling others to harm themselves and to lie," such as getting them to participate in ongoing abuses, and/or in the denial of those abuses.

not that he's an expert or anything, but the theory has stuck with me.



Relevant Tangent posted:

The elites don't do cannibalism any more because of prions. Also cannibalism wouldn't reify their power the way pedophilia does. Cannibalism is an action of last resort, of extremity, of desperation.



so you’re saying rich people are making other people eat people

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Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK
what makes you guys think there’s no cannibalism?

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